Chapter 35: Under a Difficult Victory
The sun was rising, and the Frankish camp was now flooded with blood, and the soldiers who had caught and killed each other were trampling on the ground with a terrible slapping sound everywhere, and they had to prevent slipping on the lubricated ground, where if they accidentally fell to the ground, I am afraid that they would never be remembered......
The casualties of the auxiliary legionnaires are getting bigger and bigger, and there are more and more deserters, they have no belief in retaining the clan, they are just serving as soldiers to eat and loot some extra money, who would have thought that they would actually enter this hellish battlefield of Shura and fight for hours!
As the sky grew brighter, the corpses all over the ground greatly dealt a blow to the fighting faith of the auxiliary legionnaires, and the Franks began to enter the counterattack from the suppressed state!
It's finally time for this scuffle to come to an end!
There have been scenes of massive auxiliary legionnaires collapsing and being hunted down by the Franks on local battlefields, as the Spartan pikemen in those places have already died......
At this moment, the rumbling hooves of horses sounded for the first time, and the Franks who were excitedly chasing and killing the Spartan auxiliary legions, looking at the Spartan heavy cavalry in a charging formation in horror!
Under Li Liguo's order, all the cavalry was divided into 4 directions and charged towards the Frankish camp, with the heavy cavalry in front and the lancers in the rear!
The Spartan sabre cavalry followed to expand the results!
How did the Franks, who had fought fiercely all night, withstand the charge of the elite Spartan cavalry on a large scale?!
Almost just a photo, those Franks who were still chasing the auxiliary legion a moment ago were torn to pieces by the Spartan cavalry!
The breakthrough that the legendary Spartan Janissaries and the Spartan berserkers did not achieve in a night was easily achieved by the Spartan cavalry troops, and the entire Frankish camp was full of soldiers fleeing in panic, and the Franks were divided into 4 large pieces without resistance, and then they were surrounded and annihilated!
The remaining Spartan elite followed the cavalry troops to enjoy the feeling of chasing and killing again, but unfortunately, the soldiers of the Spartan auxiliary legion were already crumbling before dawn, and when the dawn came, they were beaten into an avalanche by the Franks, even if the Spartan cavalry achieved absolute superiority, those auxiliary legionnaires did not dare to turn back......
They had taken advantage several times before, but each time they had been held back by the fierce Franks until they finally broke themselves, so the auxiliary legionnaires had actually collapsed in their hearts......
The camp of the Franks was in disarray, and after a night of scuffle, the Franks, who had no organization at all, were also completely crushed by the last fatal straw shortly after the collapse of the auxiliary legionnaires on the opposite side, and the commander of the Franks and numerous patriarchs died almost under the hooves of their horses in the first wave of the charge of the Spartan cavalry, and the remaining Franks were almost completely slaughtered!
Li Liguo looked at the battle situation that had completely reversed the situation, frowned slightly, glanced at the auxiliary legionnaires who were running around but were not restrained by the Spartan Governor's team, and sighed in his heart......
However, he still won, even if the Spartan auxiliary army collapsed and the infantry suffered heavy losses, but victory was victory, and more than 100,000 Frankish barbarian warriors were completely crushed by their own iron hooves!
The prestige of the Kingdom of Sparta will grow and ferment over time, you know, even the current Western Roman Empire, in the face of more than 100,000 barbarian troops, you have to think twice!
Under the pursuit and annihilation of the Spartan cavalry with full physical strength, the tired Franks could not escape at all, and after hearing the shouts of the Spartan cavalry surrendering and not killing, they naturally hula lala knelt together!
They were tired, and at the same time desperate, for the Spartan army, these surrendered Franks continued to feel a chill of fear from the bottom of their hearts, more than 100,000 people, nearly 3 times more than the Spartans, and the real descendants of the Spartans were only 10,000 people!
The result?
Defeated, completely defeated, completely meaningless defeat!
Even if you are defeated, you will be chased and killed for dozens of miles without resistance!
The Franks have completely lost their resistance, and this time, they served!
It took dozens of times the time to defeat the enemy by collecting the prisoners and chasing the remnants of the enemy, and it was not until the evening that Li Liguo's army stopped killing the butcher's knife, and because the Franks resisted too fiercely at night, only more than 30,000 soldiers were captured after the defeat......
More than 100,000 Frankish soldiers, even if they were easily killed after defeat due to trampling or other reasons, the casualty rate of more than half was too shocking!
According to Li Liguo's later understanding, less than 10,000 Frankish soldiers fled back to this battle, which became a disaster for the Franks......
And, from now on, never dare to step into the territory of the Kingdom of Sparta!
Of course, Li Liguo, who achieved such a big victory, in addition to the cavalry troops who only suffered a dozen casualties, the Spartan infantry also died a little too much......
Less than 100 Spartan pikemen were killed......
The main thing was the rout of the last auxiliary legion, which exposed these Spartan pikemen directly to the butcher's knives of the Franks, and as a result, they were almost killed......
The losses of the legendary Spartan Praetorian Guard were not large, and there were about 300 people, and the Spartan berserkers faced too many enemies due to the unequal combat effectiveness when cooperating with the legendary Spartan Praetorian Guard, coupled with their fighting methods, there were only more than 1,000 people left......
It can be said that after this battle, Li Liguo's Spartan infantry has been abolished......
The Spartan pikemen almost all of their weapons were scrapped, and now they use Roman daggers and shields, which the Franks had a lot of, and almost all of the Spartan infantry were equipped with Roman weapons and equipment until the end of the battle......
The iron armor on his body was completely scrapped, and he was chopped too many times, and many people couldn't wear the iron armor at all......
The Spartan army that was collected was only more than 6,000 people, but it was such a tattered army, escorting more than 30,000 Frankish prisoners to the city of Paris!
The Franks worked tirelessly with the weapons and equipment captured on the battlefield, and these iron materials were still able to create a lot of armor weapons, which was a huge wealth for the economy of the Spartan Kingdom, which was now close to collapse!
At least with these captures, Li Liguo didn't have to scavenge the people's fat and ointment to make up for the battle losses of the Spartan descendants, and by the way, he would re-arm the tens of thousands of servant legions with only one weapon!
When the Spartan army entered the city, it was greeted with the enthusiastic cheers of the inhabitants of the city of Paris, which was a praise for the victors and a cheer for their own safety. (To be continued.) Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info)